Notes:
Muwang was a Zhou dynasty king who had eight horses. These horses were used to pull his chariot. The eight horses are referred to in a Zhou dynasty story known as the Mu Tian Zi (The Heavenly Son of Mu
Compare a related yenyen vase with a similar design preserved in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Japan, published in Shincho Kôgei No Bi, Osaka, 1994, pl. 19; and another example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Compendium Collections in the Palace Museum. Ceramics, vol. 22, Beijing, 2014, pl. 184.
Producing Kangxi porcelain with a celadon ground was highly technically difficult, primarily due to the challenges of achieving a stable, uniform, jade-like green color through precise control of the kiln atmosphere and glaze composition.
